I agree with Weishaupt that the exclusion of women from priestly ordination was declared infallibly by Pope St. John Paul II in Ordinatio sacerdotalis (1994), that such a ruling must be definitively held by all the faithful as a “secondary object of infallibility”
In light of Rome's doctrine of development, Catholic theology needs a new category: temporary infallibility. Dogma is temporarily infallible until the next pope whips out his eraser.
Interesting that you brought this up. I was doing some light reading this morning:
ReplyDeleteJoseph Ratzinger's Theology of the Word
And the author says this: "there is no doubt as to the contemporary relevance of the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI."
I guess the joke's on him!